Patents by Inventor Thomas Coradetti
Thomas Coradetti has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20200088464Abstract: In one embodiment, a freezer system has one or more shelves, each shelf has shelf electronics and can receive one or more racks, each rack has rack electronics and one or more cells for receiving one or more boxes of samples, each box has one or more RFID tags. Freezer electronics communicate with the outside world and with each set of shelf electronics. Each set of rack electronics communicates wirelessly with the corresponding set of shelf electronics and with the corresponding box RFID tags. Power for the rack electronics is derived from wireless signals from the shelf electronics. The freezer system can detect the presence of racks on shelves and boxes on racks to track the location and the orientation of each received box.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: BioTillion, LLCInventors: Thomas Coradetti, Hananel Davidowitz, Theodore Altman
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Patent number: 10401082Abstract: In one embodiment, a freezer system has one or more shelves, each shelf has shelf electronics and can receive one or more racks, each rack has rack electronics and one or more cells for receiving one or more boxes of samples, each box has one or more RFID tags. Freezer electronics communicate with the outside world and with each set of shelf electronics. Each set of rack electronics communicates wirelessly with the corresponding set of shelf electronics and with the corresponding box RFID tags. Power for the rack electronics is derived from wireless signals from the shelf electronics. The freezer system can detect the presence of racks on shelves and boxes on racks to track the location and the orientation of each received box.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: BioTillion, LLCInventors: Thomas Coradetti, Hananel Davidowitz, Theodore Altman
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Patent number: 9431692Abstract: A box mapper has (i) a frame configured to receive a sample box of RFID-tagged sample vials and (ii) a set of antennae configured to read the vial RFID tags of the sample vials to determine the identity and position of each sample vial in the sample box. In one embodiment, the set of antennae include two mutually orthogonal subsets of biphase digit antennae.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: BioTillion, LLCInventors: Hananel Davidowitz, Thomas Coradetti, Theodore Altman, Roni Or
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Patent number: 8852536Abstract: In one embodiment, a cold storage system for biological samples has one or more freezers, each freezer having one or racks, each rack receiving one or more boxes, each box receiving one or more sample containers. In addition to the biological sample, each sample container has a unique passive RFID tag. Control electronics in each box energize reader coils to query individual RFID tags. Control electronics in each rack communicate with and provide power to the control electronics of each corresponding box, and control electronics in each freezer communicate with and provide power to the control electronics of each corresponding rack, and a host computer communicates with the control electronics in each freezer. In each instance, communication and power provisioning is implemented using magnetic inductive coupling. The system is able to determine the identity of each sample container in the system and maintain that information in a database.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2012Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: BioTillion, LLCInventors: Hananel Davidowitz, Thomas Coradetti, Yair Talmi
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Publication number: 20140230472Abstract: In one embodiment, a freezer system has one or more shelves, each shelf has shelf electronics and can receive one or more racks, each rack has rack electronics and one or more cells for receiving one or more boxes of samples, each box has one or more RFID tags. Freezer electronics communicate with the outside world and with each set of shelf electronics. Each set of rack electronics communicates wirelessly with the corresponding set of shelf electronics and with the corresponding box RFID tags. Power for the rack electronics is derived from wireless signals from the shelf electronics. The freezer system can detect the presence of racks on shelves and boxes on racks to track the location and the orientation of each received box.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: BioTillion, LLCInventors: Thomas Coradetti, Hananel Davidowitz, Theodore Altman
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Patent number: 8378827Abstract: In one embodiment, an antenna configuration for locating RFID tags has two sets of (mutually orthogonal) elongated reader coils, where each elongated reader coil corresponds to two or more different possible locations of RFID tags, and each possible location is associated with one reader coil in each of the two sets. The identities and locations of RFID tags can be determined by (sequentially) energizing the different sets of reader coils and correlating the recorded responses from RFID tags. In one application, the antenna configuration is used at the box level of a cold storage system for biological samples having one or more freezers, each freezer having one or racks, each rack receiving one or more boxes, each box receiving one or more sample containers, where, in addition to the biological sample, each sample container has a unique passive RFID tag.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2010Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: BioTillion, LLCInventors: Hananel Davidowitz, Thomas Coradetti, Theodore Altman, Ilya Kovnatsky
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Patent number: 8346382Abstract: In one embodiment, a cold storage system for biological samples has one or more freezers, each freezer having one or racks, each rack receiving one or more boxes, each box receiving one or more sample containers. In addition to the biological sample, each sample container has a unique passive RFID tag. Control electronics in each box energize reader coils to query individual RFID tags. Control electronics in each rack communicate with and provide power to the control electronics of each corresponding box, and control electronics in each freezer communicate with and provide power to the control electronics of each corresponding rack, and a host computer communicates with the control electronics in each freezer. In each instance, communication and power provisioning is implemented using magnetic inductive coupling. The system is able to determine the identity of each sample container in the system and maintain that information in a database.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2006Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: ColdTrack, LLCInventors: Hananel Davidowitz, Thomas Coradetti, Yair Talmi
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Publication number: 20120256806Abstract: A box mapper has (i) a frame configured to receive a sample box of RFID-tagged sample vials and (ii) a set of antennae configured to read the vial RFID tags of the sample vials to determine the identity and position of each sample vial in the sample box. In one embodiment, the set of antennae include two mutually orthogonal subsets of biphase digit antennae.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: BIOTILLION, LLCInventors: Hananel Davidowitz, Thomas Coradetti, Theodore Altman, Roni Or
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Publication number: 20100302040Abstract: In one embodiment, an antenna configuration for locating RFID tags has two sets of (mutually orthogonal) elongated reader coils, where each elongated reader coil corresponds to two or more different possible locations of RFID tags, and each possible location is associated with one reader coil in each of the two sets. The identities and locations of RFID tags can be determined by (sequentially) energizing the different sets of reader coils and correlating the recorded responses from RFID tags. In one application, the antenna configuration is used at the box level of a cold storage system for biological samples having one or more freezers, each freezer having one or racks, each rack receiving one or more boxes, each box receiving one or more sample containers, where, in addition to the biological sample, each sample container has a unique passive RFID tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: BIOTILLION, LLCInventors: Hananel Davidowitz, Thomas Coradetti, Theodore Altman, Ilya Kovnatsky
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Publication number: 20090026907Abstract: In one embodiment, a cold storage system for biological samples has one or more freezers, each freezer having one or racks, each rack receiving one or more boxes, each box receiving one or more sample containers. In addition to the biological sample, each sample container has a unique passive RFID tag. Control electronics in each box energize reader coils to query individual RFID tags. Control electronics in each rack communicate with and provide power to the control electronics of each corresponding box, and control electronics in each freezer communicate with and provide power to the control electronics of each corresponding rack, and a host computer communicates with the control electronics in each freezer. In each instance, communication and power provisioning is implemented using magnetic inductive coupling. The system is able to determine the identity of each sample container in the system and maintain that information in a database.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2006Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: COLDTRACK, LLCInventors: Hananel Davidowitz, Thomas Coradetti, Yair Talmi